The Monsters that Pornography Created

TED BUNDY

RAIFORD PRISON, STARKE, FLORIDA - The day before his execution on the eletric chair, January 23 1989, Ted Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989), gave his last interview to Dr. James Dobson. In this extraordinary document the serial killer speaks about the devastating dangerous effects of violent pornography.

ARTHUR GARY BISHOP

Arthur Gary Bishop (June 10, 1951 – June 10, 1988) was a convicted American child molester and serial killer. He confessed to the murders of five young boys in 1983, as a result of a routine police investigation.

Arthur Gary Bishop was born in Hinckley, Utah, the eldest of six brothers. Bishop was raised as a devout Mormon, and was an Eagle Scout and an honor student. When he was 18, Bishop served as a missionary in the Philippines.

Bishop was arrested for embezzlement in February 1978 and given a five-year suspended sentence, but he skipped his parole and fled to Salt Lake City, living under the alias "Roger Downs". In October 1978, the LDS Church excommunicated Bishop.

In Salt Lake City, Bishop, registering under his pseudonym, joined the "Big Brother" program. No one initially suspected "Downs" of child molestation, although dozens of children would accuse him of abuse after he was arrested for murder.

Bishop killed his first victim, a four-year-old named Alonzo Daniels, on October 14, 1979. Bishop lured the boy from the courtyard of his apartment complex to his own apartment with the promise of free candy. After attempting to assault the child, Bishop drowned him in a bathtub, and subsequently buried the boy's body in the desert.

In November 1980, Bishop killed for the second time. At a skating rink, he met an 11-year-old boy named Ron Rosen who he lured to his apartment on the pretext of buying a pair of roller-skates the boy was trying to sell. Witnesses described the man Rosen had talked with at the roller-skating rink the day prior to his disappearance as being white, aged 25–35, around 200 pounds and with dark hair. Bishop bludgeoned Rosen to death and his body was buried close to that of Alonzo Daniels outside of Cedar Fort. Bishop was again routinely questioned, but was not considered a suspect in Rosen's disappearance.

On October 20, 1981, Bishop killed for the third time; luring a four-year-old named Danny Davis from a supermarket to his home half a block away. Several shoppers recalled a smiling man standing near the child, but could only give vague descriptions as to his appearance. Police launched one of the biggest searches in Salt Lake County history. Teams of searchers scoured neighborhoods, searching fields and nearby mountains, divers dredged ponds and lakes, shoppers at the supermarket where Davis vanished agreed to undergo hypnosis in an effort to dislodge greater details of the abductor, fliers were also printed offering a $20,000 reward and the FBI were contacted but were unable to find any trace of the boy.

Almost two years later, on June 23, 1983, Bishop struck again, abducting a boy named Troy Ward from a park near his home the day after his sixth birthday. Troy was seen leaving the park on foot with a man just prior to 4 p.m. As with the prior victims, Bishop sexually assaulted him, bludgeoned him and drowned him in his bathtub.

One month later, on July 14, Bishop killed his final victim: 13-year-old Graeme Cunningham, who vanished from his neighbourhood prior to embarking upon a camping trip with a friend and an adult chaperone: one Arthur Bishop. The boy's disappearance was statewide news.

Local police looked into their past reports and found that Bishop ("Roger Downs") lived in the vicinity of four of the murders, and knew the fifth child's parents. Police brought "Downs" in for questioning on the pretext of him assisting officers with their enquiries into Graeme Cunningham's disappearance. At the station, police managed to obtain Downs's real name, and eventually got him to confess to all five murders.

The next day, Bishop led the police to three skeletons near Cedar Fort and two more recent corpses near Big Cottonwood Creek. Bishop told police he obtained a thrill from the act of murder, stating: "I'd do it again."

Bishop was brought to trial on February 27, 1984. During his trial, Bishop claimed that an addiction to child pornography molded his violent sexual fantasies and eventually drove him to act them out. The trial lasted six weeks; on March 19, 1984, Bishop was found guilty of five counts of aggravated murder, five counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of sexually abusing a minor, and sentenced to death. Upon receiving his sentence, Bishop apologized to his victims' families and made a request to be executed by lethal injection.

After his conviction he wrote a letter in which he explained the motivation for his crimes:

“ I am a homosexual pedophile convicted of murder, and pornography was a determining factor in my downfall. Somehow I became sexually attracted to young boys and I would fantasize about them naked. Certain bookstores offered sex education, photographic, or art books which occasionally contained pictures of nude boys. I purchased such books and used them to enhance my masturbatory fantasies... Finding and procuring sexually arousing materials became an obsession.For me, seeing pornography was lighting a fuse on a stick of dynamite. I became stimulated and had to gratify my urges or explode. All boys became mere sexual objects. My conscience was desensitized and my sexual appetite entirely controlled my actions. ”

Bishop was executed by lethal injection at Utah State Prison in Point of the Mountain on June 10, 1988. Prior to his execution, he again expressed remorse for his crimes.

GARY RIDGWAY

Ridgway was born on February 18th 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah to mother Mary Steinman and father Thomas Ridgway. Gary was raised in McMicken Heights, Washington and had a peculiar childhood overshadowed by a domineering and unsavory relationship with his mother.

Gary was a bed-wetter and was believed to be of very low intelligence, with an approximate I.Q. of 82. He had trouble in school with poor academic standing and attempted his first homicide in around 1966 at the age of sixteen years old by luring a six year old boy into the woods and stabbing him.

The intended victim survived and Ridgway began to spiral to stranger heights by developing an obsession with pornography, which is a common denominator in nearly all serial killers historical profiles. He was described by others as strange but friendly.

A Serial Killer Earns His Name Sixteen years after attempting his first murder, Gary began a campaign of destruction to eliminate the world of as many prostitutes as he possibly could. It's believed he committed his first killing in 1982 but really there is no way to be sure.

Ridgway began murdering working girls and dumping their bodies into "The Green River" in Washington State. He admitted to especially choosing prostitutes because he hated them and didn't want to pay them for their services. He also believed that because they were "second class" citizens that he would not be caught and would be able to continue the killings, which he referred to as "his job."

The body count began to pile up and the case gained national attention. Ridgway was known as "The Green River Killer" because he liked to dump many of the victims into the river. He later started dumping the victims in special sites he referred to as "clusters."

He enjoyed visiting these dump sites and it was discovered later that he engaged in the morbid practice of necrophilia so he could relive the murder and gloat in his violence and sexual perversion. He often posed the bodies and left weird articles on the bodies, such as fish, and stones, the significance of which were never understood.

The King County Sheriff’s office formed “The Green River Task Force” to investigate the string of murders and was comprised of notable detectives Robert Keppel, Dave Reichert, and John E. Douglas. The detectives in the case consulted with death row inmate “Ted Bundy” who was awaiting execution for his crimes in Florida.

The Green River Killer was very similar in his methods and investigators thought Bundy could help with insights and be able to help them catch their man. Unfortunately Bundy provided little real help and seemed to be using the attention as a way to benefit himself and bargain for a commuted sentence by confessing to several of his own murders and offering to reveal the dump sites.

Although the task force was made up of the most experienced and serious investigators, “The Green River Killer “ remained elusive and continued to add to his already sadly staggering kill number. Clues that would ultimately be of paramount importance were however collected at this time including paint chips, and later a DNA swab was taken from Ridgway that would be the key item of evidence that would convict him.

Ridgway had been arrested several times for soliciting prostitutes and during one of these arrests in 1987 hair and saliva sampled were taken into evidence. Ridgway was considered a serious suspect and passed a polygraph test in 1984 insisting he had no involvement in the slayings.

Investigators began having serious doubts about Ridgway’s innocence and decided to take another close look at all the data relating to him. Miraculously the DNA evidence had been preserved and was a positive match for at least four of the murders being investigated.

On November 30th 2001 police arrested Ridgway on suspicion of murder nearly twenty years after being first identified as the prime suspect in the case. When it became apparent that the evidence surrounding his guilt was indisputable, Ridgway agreed to confess to forty-eight murders in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

It seems strange that an individual who murdered so prolifically and mercilessly would fear death so much. Experts believe that the death toll far exceeded the settled upon count of forty-eight but Ridgway was no different then other butchers like Bundy and his word could not be believed or trusted.

The Green River Killer had been found and the slaughter had been stopped, but not before he was convicted of more serial murders then any other person in U.S. history.

THE REST OF THE STORY

The FBI's own study on serial homicide shows that the most common interest among serial killers is pornography. Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behaviour of a Ted Bundy or Gary Bishop, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys. But I'll tell you, there lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today.”

Pornography has unbelievable harm associated with it.

According to M. Douglas Reed, Ph,D--The evidence is mounting--hard-core pornography (violent and non-violent) does affect the attitudes & behavior of those who consume it.

Although many believe that only individuals who are "predisposed" are subject to the influence of pornography, recent research by leading social scientists has confirmed what many people have suspected for years" hard-core pornography influences the actions of NORMAL PEOPLE, as well as those who are predisposed. It affects both men and women.

The attitudes which may result from exposure to hard-core pornography are numerous, ranging from dissatisfaction with a present partner to self-reported increase in the likelihood to rape.

Exposure to pornography can also create new tendencies toward aggression, particularly aggression directed at females.

There is an increased inclination to believe the "rape myth"--that women like to be hurt, to be humiliated, to be forced to do things that they do not want to do, or to pretend to be force to do things that they really do want to do.

As long as hard-core pornography remains readily available, we can expect the rape rates to continue to rise. More women will be humiliated, injured, and even killed. It's time the relationship between hard-core pornography and violence in our society was recognized.

Pornography is infinitely worse than most of us can imagine.

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